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 A Ag. 30, 1949 PROCLAMATIONS Sept. 3 1949 Sept. 3, 1949 Observance of Na- tional Employ the Physically Handi- capped Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 2, 1949, as National Em- ploy the Physically Handicapped Week, and to cooperate with the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handi- capped Week in carrying out the purposes of the joint resolution of Congress. I also call upon the Governors of States, the mayors of cities, and other public officials, as well as upon leaders of industry and labor, of civic, veterans', farm, women's, and fraternal organiza- tions, and of other groups representative of our national life, to lend their full support to the observance of the week, in order to enlist public interest in employment of the physically handicapped. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth. By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State September 3, 1949 [No. 28501 7U.S. 0., Supp.II, 62 Stat. 1634. 54 8ta. 264 54 tat. 240. 7U. .0., Supp.IL 162l. HARRY S TRUMAN CHANGE IN QUOTA YEAR FOR IMPORTS OF LONG-STAPLE COTTON AND FIXING OF QUOTA FOR INTERIM PERIOD BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 750, 773, as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1148, 1152, and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246 (7 U. S . C . 624), the President issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939 (No. 2351, 54 Stat. 2640), limiting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, which procla- mation was suspended in part or modified by proclamations of De- cember 19, 1940 (No. 2450, 54 Stat. 2769), March 31, 1942 (No. 2544, 56 Stat. 1944), June 29, 1942 (No. 2560, 56 Stat. 1963), February 1, 1947 (No. 2715, 61 Stat. 1049), June 9, 1947 (No. 2734, 61 Stat. 1071), and July 20, 1948 (No. 2800, 13 F. R . 4176); and WHEREAS under the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, as suspended in part and modified, the quantity of cotton having a staple of 1Y8 inches or more but less than l1a inches in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any quota year may not exceed 45,656,420 pounds; and WHEREAS under the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, the quota year for imports of such cotton commences on September 20- and WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as further amended by the acts of January 25, 1940, 54 Stat. 17, and July 3, 1948, 62 Stat. 1247, 1248, the United States Tariff Com- mission has made a supplemental investigation to determine whether the circumstances requiring the said import quota on cotton having a staple of 1% inches or more in length continue to exist, or whether 1294 [63 STAT.

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